At First, the majority of the research work focuses on analyzing the aesthetic ideas demonstrated in the novel. As time goes by, researchers nowadays have become increasingly interested in the paradoxes between Wilde’s aesthetic thoughts a...

Oscar Wilde, as the spokesman of Aestheticism in Britain, is more famed for his plays than for his novel. However, his aesthetic ideal in art is best shown in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The novel tells of a young man by the name o...